Middle English Dictionary Entry
lā̆mentāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | lā̆mentāble adj. Also lementable. |
| Etymology | L lāmentābilis |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Sad, sorrowful; (b) pitiable, distressing; grievous, deplorable.
Associated quotations
a
- (?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)97 : He began to crye With lamentable vois..Þat sorwe and pitee..was it to heere.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)412/904 : Wyth wepyng terys, with vois most lamentable.
- (a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)100/24 : Sche..toke hir leue of..hir gostly fadyr..whos departyng was ful lamentabyl, as wytnessyd wel þe pur watyrdropys rennyng down be her chekys.
- c1440 ?Lydg.Charters (Add 14848)p.221 : The stormy cours here of this present lyf gothe..in a vale of wepynges lamentable.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.St.Austin (Hrl 2255)290 : The preest hath toold euery deel With evy cheer and voys most lamentable.
- c1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)2288 : Tho spake Roulande with hevy chere Woordes lamentable.
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)17 : The other ladyes yn a corner of the chaumbur, cryyng and wepyng..made a pitous and lamentable noyse.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.317 : In whiche place figures do appere and lamentable [Trev.: reweful] voices be herde ofte tymes.
- c1475 Salue wyth all (Rwl C.48)18 : Et flentes oft, with bytter terys smert, In hac dolfull, paynfull, and lamentable Lacrimarum.
- a1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)6656 : So woo thei were, thei wist not what to do..grete lordes doth ther obseruaunce, ladys also, in full lamentabill wise.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)25 : Whenne she..sawe þe blody serke, she seide with a lamentabill voys, [etc.].
- a1500 Nightingale (Corp-O 203)1/5 : Lyke as the swan syngeth Afore his deth, so sche, in the day of hure deth, Assendyth in-to the top of the tre and syngeth, 'In hora matutina', A lame[n]table note.
- a1500 Play Sacr.(Dub 652)677 : I..crye to the thus, 'O gracyows Lorde, forgyfe me my mysdede!' With lamentable hart, 'miserere mei, Deus!'
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)53/1 : Right with these wordes she stinte of that lamentable melodye.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4075 : I directe shal my stile To telle of Troylus þe lamentable wo, Whiche þat he made to parte his lady fro.
- (a1442) *War.Chanc.PRO ser.C 81 file 1367no.40 : xxx personnes..ben piteusely compleyned vnto vs..We therfore hauyng rewarde vnto theire lamentable complaintes in that bihalue..desire..ye doo make oute lettres patentes.
- (1447-8) Shillingford131 : The lementable injuries that they suffren by mene of som of their unkynde children, and also wilfulness of certyn persons of the seide Cite.
- (1447-8) Shillingford132 : Alle the lementable injuries, sotelnesse, wilfulnesse, debate, and strif commenseth and begyneth yn their part.
- (1449) RParl.5.147b : Takyng the Kyngs subgettez prisoners..with other grete and lamentable Injuries, as open Robberyes, Oppressions and Pilleries.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)5329 : What sorwe lamentable Is caused of youre werres scharpe schoures..what peple haþ your werre slayn!
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)52/9 : Þe stori rehersith also..for a lamentable kalendes of more infortune þat aftir schulde folowe, Iulia þe noble wife of Pompeye, and dowȝter to Cesar, deied of a childe berynge.
- ?a1450(1422) Lydg.SD (McC 182)61/4 : But in signe of þis lementable and þis wofull deuysion..the blode..was blake as eny picche.
- (1450) RParl.5.178a : The seid Charles..hath..taken prisoners..many other Nobles..to their likely fynall undoyng, youre grettest disheritaunce, and over grete lamentable losses that ever cam afore this to you.
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)46/16 : If any body myght see woundes of hys soule as he seez the woundes of hys body, he schulde se neuer woundes so greuose and so lamentable [L lamentabilia].
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.KEng.(1) (Hrl 372)145 : Richard..Was crownyd kyng, callid Cuer de Leon..Slayn..bi deth lamentable.
- a1525(?1472) Cov.Leet Bk.378 : Thei expresed pleinly for her declaracion her labour was thorow the speceal meenes & lamentable Instaunce of the Wyffe of the seid Will. Bryscow.
- 1532-1897(a1475) Ass.Ladies (Skeat)686 : But thus I say in trouthe, and make no fable, The case itself is inly lamentable.